The Defense Mechanisms and The Behaviour of The Criminal Mind

Chapter 1

Introduction

Chapter 2

Th e Villain and the Reasons of Violence

Chapter 3

Th e Eff ects of Superego and Object Relations on

Personality Disorders

Chapter 4

Th e Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Its Defenses

Th e Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Th e Defense Mechanisms of the Narcissistic Personality
Disorder

Chapter 5

Th e Narcissist in Literary Texts

Robert Browning – My Last Duchess
William Shakespeare – Othello
2.1. Iago

Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
3.1. Dorian Gray

3.2. Lord Henry Wotton

Similarities between The Duke of Ferrara and
Dorian Gray

Chapter 6

Conclusion

References